Watch: Heroic Rescue From Burning Apartment

TAMPA, FL — A 58-year-old Tampa woman is safe and sound thanks to three Hillsborough County deputies who rushed into her burning apartment building to rescue her Tuesday night.

According to the sheriff’s office, deputies were called out to a fire in the 7000 block of San Ramon Place just before 9 p.m. April 11. When they arrived on scene, they learned most residents had been able to safely flee from the burning apartment building.

As authorities were accounting for all the building’s occupants, however, it was brought to their attention that Bonnie Adhemy was not in the group. Bonnie, an email from the sheriff’s office, has “medical issues and was only partially ambulatory.”

Although the building had “a substantial amount of smoke inside,” deputies Robert Klocksieben, 27, Tabias Smith, 33, and Jeremy Pollack, 27, went in search of the woman anyway.

“The deputies forced entry into the apartment using a fire extinguisher to break a window and were able to find Adhemy and carry her outside to safety,” the agency reported Wednesday.

According to Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, the blaze began in one apartment, but impacted the entire building.

“The deputies risked their own safety to preserve her life,” the sheriff’s office said.

A resident recorded the rescue in action and shared the video with the sheriff’s office. Check it out below:

Screenshot via YouTube